Re: VFP and SSO

-file or see: https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2021/Nov/27/NTLM-Windows-Authentication-Authentication-with-HttpClient -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https

Re: VFPAdvanced - My Problem, My Tests & Some Results

You're very welcome Paul, my invoice is in the mail ;) -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list

Re: VFPAdvanced - My Problem, My Tests & Some Results

also clears internal buffers for open tables, forcing the tables to be refreshed, which is useful with large tables and in multiuser environments." -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Su

Re: PDF Scraping

Chris This is not easy in general and probably not possible without going outside of VFP. You're probably looking at leveraging Ghostcript somehow to parse the PDF files and dump the text out. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Re: Printer Dialogue

Not following Chris - do you mean GetPrinter() ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: ChdkDsk from VFP

Or Powershell 'repair-volume' https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storage/repair-volume?view=windowsserver2022-ps -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance

Re: ChdkDsk from VFP

ChkDsk(.f.) && or .t. to fix errors ? errReturn I believe the return codes etc are as described here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/vdswmi/chkdsk-method-in-class-win32-volume -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _

Re: Log4VFP or Log4Fox

:some text If I needed features like logging to a table, different log levels and so forth I'd use one of the two you mentioned. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintena

Re: vfp and thor set up on a clean windows 11 machine

followed the instructions - what error are you getting ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: .csv file imports to VFP

'Append from' has always been bombproof in my experience, as long as what you're giving it is correct. Do those problem rows have any weird non ASCII characters ir anything? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Sun, 16 Apr 2023, at 3:35 AM, Joe Yoder wrote: > I h

Re: Fun with .Net DLLs

up. If you want to debug, set a breakpoint in your class being tested, then right-click on the test in Test Explorer and select 'Debug'. Debugging then will proceed as normal. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to:

Re: Fun with .Net DLLs

n .NET and just make users install and register the assembly. Don't forget you have to build it as 32-bit to use it from VFP. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://ma

Re: HTTPS GET using Winsock

Via Winsock specifically ? Why complicate it? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: CDO Email

Apparently you can: .Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendtls;) = True -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/lis

Re: [NF] Queries re: Python & Such...

packages. It's very confusing when you're starting. As a language it's fantastic. Visual Studio Code is free and has excellent built-in Python support, it will install everything you need and make things as easy as possible. Assuming you're in Windows land of course. -- Alan Bourke al

Re: [NF] Queries re: Python & Such...

Kurt There's the official Python forums: https://python-forum.io/forum-8.html Also StackOverflow if you can provide a code sample. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

> If ChatGPT could understand Python, it should not be too hard for it to It doesn't *understand* anything, it's monkeys on typewriters. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscript

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

Does it have any opinions on the lovely Rachel Riley ? ;) -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

It will churn out something that looks vaguely passable, but it is all smoke and mirrors. There is no 'I' involved. It's a fancy search engine. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Sat, 4 Feb 2023, at 3:08 AM, Man-wai Chang wrote: > I am just wondering whether Visual Fox

Re: Small Report/Label Designs

Well, with a Zebra I would forget the VFP report designer and just send it ZPL commands. And use this to to the design. http://labelary.com/viewer.html -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Sun, 15 Jan 2023, at 10:56 AM, Chris Davis wrote: > Something similar to a Ze

Re: Small Report/Label Designs

What label printer are you printing them on ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: Equation solving from VFP

ot;B4").GoalSeek Goal:=-900, ChangingCell:=Range("B3") -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version

Re: [NF] Right-click Open with options

I'd try copying the EXE to pspadadmin.exe and set a shortcut to that accordingly -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Sat, 12 Nov 2022, at 3:10 PM, Paul Newton wrote: > Hi > > In my setup I have PSPad.EXE and PSPad (Admin).EXE.  The latter is > simply a copy o

Re: dreaming of vfp and vscode integration

highlighting plugin for VS Code, it worked well enough for individual files. However it didn't help with code in visual elements like form classes and that's the show-stopper with trying to use external editors with VFP. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Anyone with C# (and obviously VFP) chops looking for a 99% remote gig ?

of 5 to accelerate this project forward." UK based, he says 99% remote working, £60k - £70k -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept)

Re: fox.wikis.com

Ugh, no need for this sort of thing. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

fox.wikis.com

What's going on there then? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: ChilkatVFP 1.0 Released

Thanks Bill will come in very useful -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: Creating a hyperlink on a PDF via XFRX.

Turns out it's a real pain in the ass to do this on a VFP report layout directly. So I knocked up a .NET COM-visible DLL which uses a third party library to place the relevant hyperlink onto an already-created PDF file. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Re: Creating a hyperlink on a PDF via XFRX.

Thanks. I will look into those options. I also considered having a placeholder URL and then postprocessing the PDF file as hyperlinks seem to be plain text inside them. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages

Creating a hyperlink on a PDF via XFRX.

ield #UR A HREF=mytable.myfield #UR A HREF=eval(mytable.myfield) Has anyone ever done this ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _

Re: Pictures in a table

IMO don't ever store binary objects in a relational database table. Store a relative path and filename from a root disk location. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance

Re: Need Help - Foxpro & Chilkat & Rest API

I'd sell it back to Chilkat. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com

Re: Another GDIPlusX question

On Mon, 18 Jul 2022, at 1:50 PM, Eric Selje wrote: > "RubberDucking" > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging Haha, excellent. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@lea

Re: Another GDIPlusX question

On Sat, 16 Jul 2022, at 11:49 PM, Paul Newton wrote: > Isn't it marvellous how simply posting a question to this esteemed list > somehow kicks ones brain into gear ... albeit only after posting I call it the Stackoverflow effect. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (d

Re: GDIPlusX GetHue() and GetBrightness()

Paul The .NET syntax is very similar: https://dotnetfiddle.net/b2uIkS However it returns the lightness value in a range of 0 .. 1 so you have to multiply by 100 to express in a % which seems to be how everyone else does it. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Re: GDIPlusX GetHue() and GetBrightness()

I don't think its implementation of these methods is correct Paul, comparing with what .NET would return. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com

Re: GDIPlusX GetHue() and GetBrightness()

Try Cast(loColor.GetHue() as Integer) or Cast(loColor.GetHue() as Numeric(12, 2)) ... -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: GDIPlus - Resize

Also https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/wiaaut/-wiaaut-startpage -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman

Re: GDIPlus - Resize

Paul Take a look at the Windows Image Acquisition API, the link below is a method that I use to resize images from a signature pad. https://gist.github.com/AlanPBourke/b4ad122636978245a678a65155ba51e7 -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Re: [NF] Monitor woes

VGA only. Well, you can get DVI or HDMI to VGA converters but this is no different than the first monitor, a VGA connection is a D-SUB type connection. The old Atari joystick style! -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post

Re: [NF] Monitor woes

What model number is the second one Paul? I find it kind of odd that a modern flat panel capable of full HD would only have an analogue input. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: IE's death

I think all that happened yesterday is that IE won't get any more updates or patches and any attempt to launch it via the shortcut will shove you towards Edge instead. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages

Re: Legacy app using wwipstuff.dll fails sending Office365 email

For anything we have that sends through using SMTP, if a customer wants to send through a Microsoft mail server they definitely have to set up a relay as per the document Richard linked to. Which is why I get them to use Amazon SES instead if possible. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke

Re: [NF] VGA/DVI to HDMI

Or strictly speaking, HDMI (laptop) to DVI (monitor) -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list

Re: [NF] VGA/DVI to HDMI

Hi Paul HDMI-DVI all day long, VGA is analogue which is crap in this day and age. You'll get a better, more stable image and Windows will be able to control it better. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages

Re: Problem setting ActiveX control property (Folderview and Fileview controls)

Paul The control might just be really particular about the parameter being a long integer. I have seen discussion of this sort of problem where the person ended up writing a VB6 wrapper and calling that from VFP instead. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Re: fox wiki down for anyone else?

Yes 503 here. Steven Black is the hombre responsible IIRC -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version

Re: [NF] MHTML woes

Paul You could try a browser extension like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodijhokgodhhofbcjdecpffjipkle?hl=en -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: VFP 9: Invalid Path or File Name

Window and it fails also? Is there a hidden ARINVT01.TXT in the output location ? Try erase "output\arinvt01.txt" copy to yada yada -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Ma

Re: VFP 9: Invalid Path or File Name

Try wrapping the filename in quotes. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: [NF] Those were the days ... ISP charges

mid 1990s it was about £10 a month with phone call charges on top. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free vers

Re: VRunFox

Kurt > If you Create an EXE - all you then need to do is > pass along the DLL files with your project EXE - and then the EXE should > run... For sure, but this is to be able to run full VFP, get the Command Window and all that, in a portable fashion. -- Alan Bourke al

Re: VRunFox

If you just want something that you can use onsite without actually installing VFP, just take the following files from your VFP\Windows folders, zip them, then just unzip them in a folder on whatever machine and run the EXE. This is better than vrunfox because it's the full enchilada. vfp9.exe

Re: 1001 Things You Wanted to Know About Visual FoxPro

Normally I'd harass people on Twitter but Whil doesn't appear to have been on that since 2019. Maybe call the number on the website ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: [NF] Remember when Google's motto was "Don't be Evil"?

I use Firefox exclusively and Vivaldi on phone. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: Determine if a File is Open

folder and don't worry about erasing it. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 29 Mar 2022, at 4:33 PM, Carl Lindner wrote: > I extracted "d:\test_dir\test.pdf". Then used ShellExecute to open it. The > user reads the pdf and later

Re: [NF] Facets Database???

It's a good name for a database though. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https

Re: Converting RTF to HTML

Very handy that. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman

Re: Back from the Dead & MS PowerApps...

as it seems to be with every tool that isn't Visual FoxPro ;) Take a look at April Dunnam's excellent Youtube tutorials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H4ljf4FuTE -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images.

Great, will try that! Danke. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com

Re: Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images.

Hmm I might suggest that to them thanks -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, at 12:12 PM, j...@johnweller.co.uk wrote: > I don't know if this will help but if you open a PDF in Word it will > automatically convert it to a Word document - even if t

Re: Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images.

No worries thanks -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, at 12:07 PM, paul.newton.h...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Alan ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mail

Report to Microsoft PDF Printer creates text as images.

affect it. Replicating this process with the report layouts in question on my PC works fine. Has anyone ever come across this ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept

Re: Problem installing Thor

users\xx\dev\vfpdev\thor\thor.app" HTH -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail

Re: VFP code editor syntax highlighting not working properly (totally screwed up) - SOLVED

ry settings, or to write its settings to the registry." -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https:

Re: Transparent commandbuttons in Windows 11

https://iili.io/lPsOcg.md.png -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com

Re: [NF] Help With VB.Net

s) Handles TextBox1.Validating Dim isValid As Boolean isValid = True ' Check what you need to check here. If isValid = False Then e.Cancel = True End If End Sub -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Mon, 10 Jan 2022, at

Re: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

> I have everything working as expected for SCX, VCX, MNX, FRX and LBX. I am > still to address DBF, DBC, PRG and, perhaps, QPR What have Queen's Park Rangers got to do with it :) -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm __

Re: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

Paul Same registry values, same expected action on double clicking here. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free

Re: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

and the value is a REG_SZ equal to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\vfp9.exe" -SHELLOPEN "%1" HTH -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: ht

Life in the old dog\cat yet*

. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https

Re: [NF] My laptop performance is soooo bad in ANY browser

Start Task Manager, Performance tab, then Resource Monitor option at bottom. Flick between the tabs there and see what process is utilising CPU and\or Disk. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: sftp for vfp6?

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Re: looking docs or code for reading and exporting vfp menus that I can understand

If you run the built-in report below it will show you how the MNX file is structured: Modify Report (Home() + "Tools\Filespec\60mnx.frx") ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox

Re: [NF] Windows 10 32 bit on current Hardware

They have stopped releasing 32 bit OEM builds as of Windows 10 2004. So all new machines from OEMs are 64 bit, as are all OEM installers. It could be that. I bet an off the shelf 32 bit consumer SKU would work. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Thu, 4 Nov 2021, at 2

Re: Matt Slay

That's terrible news, he was a real expert and a credit to the community. RIP -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT

Re: [NF] Windows 10 Home networking and Explorer

Don't enable SMB1 support. You might as well leave your front door open when you leave the house. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman

Re: VFP equivalent of SQL Server 'script table'

Thanks folks. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo

VFP equivalent of SQL Server 'script table'

than adding binary DBF files etc. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: [NF] - Is Bigger Always Better When It Comes To Your Monitors? :)

On Wed, 25 Aug 2021, at 6:16 PM, Eric Selje wrote: > They might have even > squeaked into Win 10. > The FancyZones Powertoy for Windows 10, mentioned in the article, has effectively been incorporated into Windows 11. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail

Re: Retire the CSV?

en't we? Happens every five years or so. If it's not that it's 'Excel is dead'. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox

Re: [NF] Winforms

> Thanks for all your replies. Don't understand why Microsoft haven't sorted > visual inheritance properly. You're assuming that they view it as a problem. If they did they'd have fixed it in the .NET Core version of WinForms. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (d

Re: Retire the CSV?

any sort of built-in report generating at all. It's easy for non programmers to view and work with CSV files using Excel. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https

Re: [NF] Winforms

Graham I'd definitely consider Windows Presentation Foundation over Winforms if this inheritance thing is a problem for you, because WPF *does* support that sort of visual inheritance, and i will set you up for WinUI going forward. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Re: [NF] Winforms

do it with a UserControl. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/controls/creating-a-wf-control-design-time-features?view=netframeworkdesktop-4.8 -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscript

Re: [NF] Winforms

It's been many years since I used WinForms but if I remember visual inheritance and WinForms designer support in Visual Studio don't work the same as you would be used to from VFP or VB6. Basically you have to programmatically add designer support, or as you say programmatically update any

Re: Disappearing pop-up windows (like the Find window dialog in Code References, and sometimes the entire Debug window)

I've never gotten VFP to work reliably with this sort of setup. IMO it's from a time before dual monitors and doesn't know what the hell is happening. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, at 12:56 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > VFP9SP2 Win10

Re: New Job & The Silence is Killing Me...

On Wed, 21 Jul 2021, at 3:33 AM, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > Seems an oddity occured - and I started getting these ProFox emails > again to my main email addy. So - just noticed this recently... > *Something* happened, I didn't get any mails for a while there. -- Alan Bourke al

Re: Windows 11???

around a lot with the location and appearance of Windows configuration screens but really these days doesn't everyone just type 'network' or whatever into the search box? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox

Re: Windows 11???

Yes, Trusted Platform Module. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Wed, 21 Jul 2021, at 3:28 AM, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > This TPM - isn't it a chip based thing in Intel machines for security > purposes? Sounds familiar from my time at Northrop Grumman... >

Re: Help or Opinions on GKKTools / VFP-Editors from ggreen86 from VFPX on github

dn't help with code in visual elements like form classes. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this li

Re: Windows 11???

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, at 9:18 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > Or port to Angualr, React, Vue, etc. > > All of that potential porting revenue you have missed out on. VFP shoots itself in the foot a bit with this, as it continues to work just fine in many scenarios and customers are reluctant to

Re: FPW26a

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, at 3:14 PM, Jürgen Wondzinski wrote: > Alan, he's talking of FoxPro 2.6 for WINDOWS. No DOS involved here. > Hi Jürgen, entirely possible, install Windows 3.11 under DosBox-X and then copy your FPW stuff over from your main filesystem using a shared location.

Re: Windows 11???

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, at 3:05 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > Hmmm...I thought Windows 10 was the last OS! Does this mean we have the > anxiety yet again of "will our VFP apps work in Win" ??? It looks like effectively a large service pack, the UI has differences but the underlying

Re: FPW26a

Networking would probably be easier with Windows 98 but to be honest I'd use DosBox-X and just run it in a window and not bother with virtualisation. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: ShellExecute

.Run(lcExe + " " + lcCommandLine, 1, .t.) && Wait for result. Endfunc -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Wed, 9 Jun 2021, at 10:33 AM, Chris Davis wrote: > Hi All > > I want to ShellExecute a program repeatedly b

Re: Printing PDF's

monochrome duplex , duplexshort , duplexlong and simplex bin= : select tray to print to paper= : page size is A2 , A3 , A4 , A5 , A6 , letter , legal , tabloid , statement -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Pos

Re: Form designer rules?

On Mon, 24 May 2021, at 3:54 PM, Eric Selje wrote: > I know you're all probably tired of hearing this drumbeat, but having SQL > statements in UI controls is a bad idea. Do what you can to separate that > out. I agree. ___ Post Messages to:

Free Windows 10 development VMs

mplate Studio extension * Visual Studio Code * Windows Subsystem for Linux enabled with Ubuntu installed * Developer mode enabled The catch? They expire, although not for two months. Great for testing or messing around without screwing up your main dev environment. -- Alan Bourke alanp

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